Curriculum design: Knowledge-centred curriculum
Written By: Author(s): Daryn Egan-Simon
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What’s the aim?
A knowledge-centered curriculum focuses on students acquiring ‘powerful knowledge’ (Young and Muller, 2013, p. 245) across a range of academic disciplines ensuring that they have access to a broad and balanced education. Within a knowledge-centred curriculum, subjects are taught at gradually increasing levels of complexity leading to deeper knowledge and understanding.
What does it mean?
A knowledge-centred curriculum (see also ‘knowledge-based’, ‘knowledge-led’ and ‘knowledge-rich’) provides students with a broad understanding of traditional academic subjects across the arts, languages, sciences and humanities. A knowledge-centred curriculum is subject-based and aims to teach students discipline-specific knowledge and skills. Within each subject, students learn specialised subject-related concepts. According to Ellis (2004, p.105), a knowledge-centred curriculum ‘focuses on intellectual growth and development, on challenging the learner to go dee
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This article was published in May 2019 and reflects the terminology and understanding of research and evidence in use at the time. Some terms and conclusions may no longer align with current standards. We encourage readers to approach the content with an understanding of this context.
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